By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. Ralph Ellison
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Ralph Ellison

 American Author Fiction
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

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 American Author Fiction
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

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Education is all a matter of building bridges - Ralph Ellison Quotes

Education is all a matter of building bridges

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 Education
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ralph Ellison

 American Author Power
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